Posted on 10/04/2018 4:06:30 PM PDT by Hugin
National wood body and steel body video. Listen to the different sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogfi3g-yCZ4
Check Knopfler playing his steel body on this video below at 9:35. Watch the whole thing if you have the time. He is amazing.
love my 80’s too....my mp3 player is full of that stuff....
I watched the video and was going to comment before I read your post about Gimme Shelter. I listen to music (among many other things) while I work. Today I was listening to my iTunes shuffle and that song came up. I bought a pair of Bose headphones for myself for my birthday last year that were ridiculously expensive. Hearing music on them is a whole different experience.
Anyhoo, I heard Gimme Shelter today sounding so great and was just struck by how perfect that song is. It is a masterpiece. There is simply no comparison with the excrement that is released now and that song. Just weird that you posted exactly what I was thinking that was prompted by the excellent video from the OP.
Great minds I guess Navy Vet.
This is actually true for classical music as well. But it has been downhill for the past 200 years.
How many popular songs from the past half-century include the verbs "to chaff" or "to deride" in their lyrics? Probably zero.
Because there is only one Highwayman left.
bro country is so bad that you cannot tell who is singing plus the songs are forgettable. That and the fake accents.
This from 1987! I would like to have heard his opinion on todays dreck!
Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0
My favorite hymns are those written between 1865 and 1917 by great American hymn writers like P. P. Bliss, Lelia Morris, George Stebbins, Robert Lowry and Howard Doane and English writers such as Joseph Barnby, William Monk and John Dykes. I hardly like anything that was written after 1939, and I can't stand the "modern" arrangements of most sacred songs available on Youtube.
My favorite performances of sacred music on Youtube are by the Old Fashioned Revival Hour Chorus Choir (I'm prejudiced because my mother was a member), Here, you can listen to them perform One of God's Days, a beautiful but nearly forgotten hymn written by Walter and Civilla Martin in 1909.
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
My take is that strauss, Mozart brahms are dead.
But I will grant the Hendrix is dead.
Actually the 2 words are Simon Cowell. Image over substance and talent
New hip
Hop
Is good and old school
106.1 102.1. 100.7/105.7. 99.7. 94.9 in gay bay
If you have a short attention span, fast-forward to 16 minutes.
The industry has discovered that instead of gambling on whether you’ll like the new talent they hire, they simply pick some crappy “musician” (and I use the term loosely) who will work for cheap, then convince you to buy their crap.
The shorter answer is that most people have no taste and they buy whatever music will impress their friends.
The dude means pop and rap crap, right?
Bossa Nova. Learn it, know it, live it.
The hypercommercialization that started with Nirvana killed music in the West. I watched it happen step by step by step to my absolute horror, then being a classical music theory student and musician.
While Nirvana was breaking every sales record, I was listening to four live bands every night, ALL of which were objectively superior.
I eventually concluded that the music industry actually seeks out generic crap and actively avoids anything original and extraordinary, because you can’t infinitely reproduce the extraordinary and sell it again over and over under different names.
I listen to mostly Japanese music now. It’s the only source of new music that is not nauseatingly childish to the educated ear.
Here’s a list I’m working on of tunes I’ve ripped from anime that are well worth listening to on their own without understanding a word of Japanese. Compare this to what’s popular now, the night and day difference is breathtaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qCBBRecCM
The contrived vocal sound kills me. Sounds pleasant yes but completely unnatural, and as a result doesn’t connect to the heart. That’s a variant of the “oversouling” problem. Utterly generic musical backing doesn’t help mitigate it at all.
They’re excellent performers, but one can only do so much with bland material to perform.
“...replaced them with puppets...”
The group RUSH had a poor showing on their third album. The label didn’t like the long song at the end. They told the group to make shorter songs that would get radio time.
RUSH decided to do it their own way and be true to themselves. And if they got cut, well at least they could hold their heads up. The first song on their next album was 20+ minutes long. “2112” - Which was a great seller, and provided them the freedom to do whatever they wanted to in the following years.
The group has talked about how hard it is for new bands to gain traction, and how hard it is for a band to make money in this day of digital music.
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